Remaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings / edited by Anthony N. Penna and Conrad Edick Wright.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Wright, Conrad Edick (Editor), Penna, Anthony N. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2009. ©2009
Series:	History of the urban environment. University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Subjects:	Nature > Effect of human beings on > Massachusetts > Boston Region > History. Environmental degradation > Massachusetts > Boston Region > History. Environmental policy > Massachusetts > Boston Region > History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General. HISTORY > General. Ecology Environmental degradation Environmental policy Nature > Effect of human beings on Boston Region (Mass.) > Environmental conditions > History. Massachusetts > Boston Region History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : Boston from peninsula to metropolis / Anthony N. Penna
The drowning of Boston Harbor and the development of the shoreline / Peter S. Rosen and Duncan M. FitzGerald
What lies beneath : science, nature, and the making of Boston Harbor / Michael Rawson
Remaking Boston Harbor : cleaning up after ourselves / Steven M. Rudnick
In search of the Shawmut Peninsula : using modern cartographic analysis to discover the "original" Boston shoreline / Stephen T. Mague
Remaking Boston, remaking Massachusetts / Brian Donahue
A city (only partly) on a hill : terrain and land use in pre-twentieth-century Boston / William B. Meyer
Reforestation in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1850-1910 / David Soll
How metropolitan parks shaped greater Boston, 1893-1945 / James C. O'Connell
Reclaiming the middle Charles River reservation / Daniel Driscoll and Karl Haglund
Boston's weather and climate histories / William B. Meyer
"Rain down righteousness" : interpretations of natural events in mid-eighteenth-century Boston / Lauri Bauer Coleman
Biological responses to climate change in Boston / Abraham J. Miller-Rushing and Richard B. Primack.

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